Jacinto Lucas Pires

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Jacinto Lucas Pires (born July 14, 1974 in Porto , Portugal ) is a Portuguese writer, playwright , screenwriter , director, columnist and musician.

Life

Jacinto Lucas Pires was born in Porto as the son of the former CDS party leader and politician and professor Francisco Lucas Pires and the lawyer Teresa Almeida Garrett, a descendant of the famous playwright Almeida Garrett , and comes from an upper-class family.

He studied law at the Catholic University in Lisbon and film studies at the New York Film Academy. But he mainly emerged as a writer. He published his first book in 1996; it was the volume of short stories Para Averiguar do seu Grau de Pureza .

The versatile author works as a musician in the Os Quais group and as a sports columnist, especially for football, for the daily newspaper Jornal de Notícias .

Various books or parts of them have already been translated into Spanish, English, French, Croatian, Norwegian and even Siamese.

The author lives in Lisbon.

Award

  • Premio Europa- David Mourao-Ferreira, 2008.

Works

Scripts

  • E so um minuto, 1998.
  • Almirante Reis, 2000.
  • Cinemar Amor, 2000.
  • 14 de Fevereiro (a 1 de Abril), 2003.
  • BD, 2004.

Director

  • Cinemar Amor, 2003.
  • BD, 2004.

stories

  • Para Averiguar do seu Grau de Pureza, collection of short stories, 1996 (debut).

In addition, his stories appeared in the newspaper A Capital until 2005 , and since then in Jornal de Notícias.

Other books

  • Azul-Turquesa (fiction, 1998),
  • Abre para cá (short stories, 2000),
  • Livro Usado (travel literature, 2001),
  • Escrever, Falar (play, 2002),
  • Do Sol (novel, 2004).
  • Perfeitos Milagres (novel, 2007).

Plays

  • Universos e frigoríficos (1998, staged by Manuel Wiborg)
  • Arranha Céus (1999, directed by Ricardo Pais)
  • Escrever Falar (2001, directed by Marcus Barbosa)
  • Coimbra B (2003, staged by Manuel Barbosa, on the occasion of Coimbra's inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage Site )
  • Octávio no Mundo (2006, staged by Natália Vieira)

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personal data
SURNAME Pires, Jacinto Lucas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese writer, screenwriter and director
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH postage